a global paper shortage due to pandemic shopping online. industry leaders say there s a temporary lack of cardboard packaging. and coming up in half an hour, global questions, which asks if tech giants have gone too far after social media sites suspended donald trump. hello and welcome to bbc news. england s covid lockdown will need to be eased very slowly and very cautiously , with the focus on getting people vaccinated and preventing another wave of infections. that s according to dr susan hopkins from public health england, who said the uk should start seeing the impact of the vaccination programme within a fortnight. meanwhile, a happy and free great british summer is being predicted by the health secretary, matt hancock. but he warns of a tough few months before then. it comes as the irish prime minister, micheal martin, said lessons had to be learnt, after the eu was blindsided by its row with astrazeneca, before backtracking on its threat to put checks on the ir
media at its worst . mps will debate the cladding crisis tomorrow as campaigners say residents of flats covered in the flammable material are being financially crippled by rising insurance costs. a global paper shortage due to online shopping during the pandemic. industry leaders say there s a temporary lack of cardboard packaging. new figures reveal about one in six adults in the uk have now received the first dose of their coronavirus vaccine after a record number of people were vaccinated in the past 2a hours. 8.98 million people have had theirfirstjab, according to the government. despite the rapid progress of the inoculation campaign, health officials say england s covid lockdown will need to be eased very slowly and very cautiously with the focus on preventing another wave of infections. that s according to dr susan hopkins from public health england, who said the uk should start seeing the impact of the vaccination programme within a fortnight. meanwhile, a happy an
hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are broadcaster john stapleton, and kate proctor, editor of politics home and the house magazine. welcome back to both of you, welcome back to both of you, happy welcome back to both of you, happy new year. the is headline daily tests for 100,000 key workers as prime minister sticks with plan b measures, at an announcement in downing street. the metro quotes borisjohnson, who insists england can ride out the 0micron wave as he brings no new covid restrictions. however, in the guardian, he admits parts of the nhs could be overwhlemed in the coming weeks, as hospital trusts declare critical incidents amid staff shortages and covid patients. the daily telegraph claims covid testing rules are to be relaxed, as part of efforts to shorten the isolation period and solve staff shortages. and the financial times pictures tech entrepreneur elizabeth holmes, who was found guilty of fraud, aft
also in the programme: we report from yemen as the war reaches a turning point. houthi rebels are gaining ground in the seven year conflict a war that s caused shocking levels of suffering and forced many into makeshift desert camps. the people here are suffering because of the fault lines that run right through the middle east. and barbados has spent its first day as a republic with a president not the queen as its head of state. we ll be live from the capital. there s evidence the omicron variant of covid was present in europe days before international travel restrictions were introduced and before it was first reported by south africa. a lot to show you on the pandemic. let s start with bbc health correspondent laura foster. we had thought that the first cases came to the netherlands over the weekend, but it now transpires that there were two test samples between the 19th and the 23rd. why am i telling you those dates? that s because south africa reported its finding
rather than the roads. yorkshire are investigating a new racism allegation this time from a former academy cricketer. it comes after their new chairman said azeem rafiq should be praised for being a whistleblower on discrimination. this is poppies, an artwork that captured the nation back in 2014. i ll start to the day and a mild day generally. we have cloud and rain moving across england and wales and wales and showers in scotland and northern ireland with sunshine in between and wherever you are, it will be breezy. good morning. a man who was injured caving in the brecon beacons has been rescued after being trapped underground for two days. he is said to be in good spirits after 250 worked in shifts to bring him to safety. 0ur correspondence sent this report. mission accomplished. after more than two days of painstaking, exhausting work, relief all round. together, these volunteers carried the casualty through an underground assault course of boulders, streams and ledges,